2-Letter Words Starting with D

Have an unfavourable opinion (of)

Decline to sanction

Take exception to rewriting Ovid's paper

Poor dear gran is upset

Make a mess of

Make untidy

Untidy diary reads badly

You're closing down my speakeasy (wordplay)

Like a bomb, say

Causing great damage

Highly unsuccessful

Repudiations

Disavow

Disband

Procedure for an unethical lawyer

Burundi's barmen trying to comprehend legal ban

Disbar

Discant

Discarder

Throwing away

In draw poker, preparing to receive replacements*

Stripped of flesh.

Daughter is accused, but let off

Dismissed detectives accused in the station

Dismissed theologian over one small order

""(d s chärj , d s-chärj ) The act of removing a load or burden.""

""One who, or that which, discharges. Specifically, in electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden jar, or electrical battery, by making a connection between the two surfaces; a discharging rod.""

What an angry babysitter might do (wordplay)

Sacks

Distanced oneself from

Like a retired insurance agent (wordplay)

Denial of responsibility

Medic rails about refusal to take responsibility

Refusal to admit detective worked miracles

Quarreling insect (wordplay)

Quarreling insect?

Lacking harmony; conflicting

Cause loss of enthusiasm in (someone)

Iago cursed, getting put off (wordplay)

It's round to our times to put this off

Record agent and worker not agreeing

Contrary, disagreeing

Inconsistent

Person taking part in talks written off as nuts on record

Did a sinful move, showing arrogance

Superior papers rejected by lad, if Sun's out

Contemptuous

Turning up one's nose at

Contemptuous

Steps ashore

Free from illusion

Take illusions away

Make someone feel let down

Out of gear (wordplay)

Released from a connection or obligation

Free design smeared on grey

Separates

Detaches

Disentail

Tatty tinsel, hard to free from enchantment

Disfavor

Black-eye bringers

Reflecting reproach on

Being unworthy of.

Dragging through the mud

Sloppily dressed

Dish liable to be made without proper dressing

Good-looking girl fit to seduce the Italian with scanty clothing

Garda's union produced conflict

Friction within a group

Detective's union leads to conflict

Demoralise the sardine by cooking!

To take away enthusiasm or courage

Take away courage

Soapstone ring wearer (wordplay)

Appliance used after dinner

Menial role of aerial nut and bolt ring (wordplay)

Dishwater

LIKABLE able to be liked

Daughter is found out

Out of order.

You couldn't even find your own butt on a Waze app

Moves out of a normal position

Injures, as a bone

Inconveniences

In a disloyal manner.

Traitor's trait

To sly lady I wronged, it's unfaithful behaviour

Lady toils busily around yard changing sides (wordplay)

The quality of being dismal; gloominess.

Put through a chop shop, say

Taken to bits

Taken to pieces

Is far from constructive

Takes apart cloaks belonging to Diane

Strips down lens amidst broadcast

Dismast

Heave-hos

Made light of

Spoke slightingly

Father was furious after daughter is denigrated

One who disparages or dishonors; one who vilifies or disgraces.

Belittles.

Knocks

Dispart

Freedom from passion; an undisturbed state; apathy.

No longer mended (wordplay)

Radio-active employee

Railroad man.

Boss hid aspects of messages

Sends off messages

Cadetships all at sea in ships

Hash house (wordplay)

Place where medicines are given out

Boots possibly dressy - pain when moving

Disseminations

""PERSANT piercing, also PERCEANT, PERSAUNT""

Taking the place of model splicing ad

Showing someone the door for most of the presentation by Charlie in government

Displant

The District Inspector's in the game. It all goes to show

Angry at having sick around the place

Frowning

Dissatisfies

Such income not permanent (wordplay)

Liquid to be thrown away after use

Designed to throw away after use

PRAISED praise

One who blames or dispraises.

Dispraise

""Capable of being disputed; liable to be called in question, controverted, or contested; or doubtful certainty or propriety; controvertible; as, disputable opinions, propositions, points, or questions. as, disputable opinions, propositions, points, or questions.""

DISPUTE to argue about

Engagers in a logomachy

Remove from competition

Render unfit or unsuitable

Exclude underworld leader with pass

Ignores

Unconnected

Disrepair

Fail to please

Disappoint; disgruntle

Most of the record will not frustrate or fail to gratify

Disseat

Discourse at length

Discourse formally

Nothing like this

Not like Iris, dismal when drunk

Contradictory girl I had rejected - naughty liar!

Squandered - debauched

Intemperate

Overindulgent

Wasteful father (wordplay)

Fruit soaking up one's drink, disperses

Breaks up

Separate, disconnect

In seconds a dreadful lack of harmony

Lack of harmony

Clashing quality of musical notes

Dissuader

Dissuade

The use of deterrence

Deterrence

What deters wandering Saudis? Promised land (wordplay)

""Tending to dissuade or divert from a measure or purpose; dehortatory; as, dissuasive advice. as, dissuasive advice.""

Distain

Distance

Distaste

Moonshiner's product.

Said little about concentrated essence

Something produced by condensing vapour

Diverted (attention) from (something)

Troubled - ID card test (anagram)

Amused or confused (wordplay)

Distrain

Same as Distrainor. Distrainor.

One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels.

Distraint

A mo. in a tizzy (wordplay)

Single good man in drink's raving

Upset drink taking one's time

""A drug used in the treatment of alcoholism that interferes with the metabolic degradation of alcohol, producing an unpleasant reaction when even a small quantity of alcohol is consumed.""

Disvalue

Detectives welcoming one black friend's return with spondee, say

A word with two syllables.

Lisping shepherd's giddy male sheep?

Impassioned acclaims

Lisping shepherd's giddy male sheep (wordplay)

Divagate

What could get one avoiding a subject ultimately (wordplay)

Stretch/spread apart

Occult art

Get a share for the Sioux by telling the future

Prediction of small return on investment by state

""Professing, or relating to, divination.""

Someone beautiful in face, in parts

Departmental.

Djellabah

Comparative adjective or agent noun

Indoor court reportedly 88 degrees

Highest graduate-school degrees

Advanced degrees

A drum's coda might indicate such factions

Of official papers

Like written material, arranged in column with date

Finish with copper getting mad, giving description of written evidence

Dodecagon

Catch them or you're out

Tabby's friend (wordplay)

Tabby's friend?

Pound worker (wordplay)

Opinionated

Dictatorial.

Dogmatism

Certain people crash Tim's stag do

Opinionated ones

Overbearing types

DOGMATIZE To assert positively; to teach magisterially or with bold and undue confidence; to advance with arrogance.

One who dogmatizes; a bold asserter; a magisterial teacher.

Dogmatize

Dognapper

Dognap

Dogwatch

Dominance

In a controlling way

For the most part

Chiefly, bread found in skip wrapped in newspaper less perfect

Commanding, influencing

Present compiler's back in control

I am held back by present government

Exercise of mastery.

Governing; ruling; imperious.

Rulers cheat, endlessly threatening society

Alphas

Whipper snapper (wordplay)

Woman with a whip (wordplay)

Whip wielder

Doomsayer

One who predicts calamity at every opportunity.

DOOMSDAY judgement day

Doorplate

Dormancy

Northerners who once sympathized with the South

Fit together nicely

Fitted together skillfully.

Bird becomes neatly joined

What beer drinkers do (wordplay)

Sad fine comedian failed

Ruined

Defeated

Changed from A to B, as a credit rating

Lowered the status

Lowered in status

Motorist's concern.

Puts less value on

Demotes

*Got from the cloud (wordplay)

Something soft and rich confined to one's memory (wordplay)

Softpedaled; de-emphasized

Made light of 24 across and 8 across

Underrated director admitted penning drama

DOWNSCALE

Downscale

Downstage

Perhaps a level below sad street songs

On ground floor (or in basement)

Where scullions knew their place

DOWNSTATE

Downstate

Where the eider duck swims (wordplay)

With the current

The current trend, naturally

DOWNWARD from a higher to a lower place

Downwash

Drabness

""Draftier , draftiest Having or exposed to drafts of air.""

DRAGGING drag

A kind of mint.

What keeps leader back is a plant

Herb with purplish flowers

Putting the arm on

Trousers with very narrow legs

Tight trousers Ian's ripped badly

Criminal is dapper in trousers

Made play with dames: Triad cut up rough

Overdid a little drink - date is going badly

Adapts dreadful mad satires

Prepares for the stage, funny mad satires

Ones earning play money (wordplay)

Play fellows (wordplay)

Anthony and Peter Shaffer

Presented poignantly.

Dramatize

Playwright.

Expression of annoyance about graduate with desire to become playwright

Dramaturg

The Thespian art.

Theatrical art

Playwriting

Letting in more air

Having more wind? Hardier gut possibly wanted!

King and I separately welcomed by child needing more protection from blows

Course for artful bartenders

An adjustable spanner (wordplay)

Uplifting sight for ships (wordplay)

Card game for artists (wordplay)

Drawerful

""A knife with a handle at each end of the blade, used with a drawing motion to shave a surface. Also called drawshave .""

DRAWLING drawl

Drawnwork

Drawplate

Drawshave

Sketch some cylindrical cheese (wordplay)

Pouch feature

Drapery need

Freddy Krueger's third? All butchered in an horrific way

Origin of disaster studied completely in a dire way

Detest confinement (wordplay)

Outside study, student ties up long hair

Bob Marely's hairstyle

DREAMFUL {dreamy=adj}

The state of being dreamy.

Fantasy worlds

Dreamtime

Alice's wonderland

Walter Mitty's milieu.

Never-never land.

Nerds arise! Break the monotony

Dismal state

Eat starters of salami and sauerkraut, devouring rump in gloom

Couturier or seamstress, perhaps

Fabric-cutting job

Jenny Wren was one.

Drinkable

Fictional band on the TV show "Lost"

Car's torque transmitter

*Torque-providing component

Auto-warranty subject

Gearing bolt found in exhaust

Car's engine-to-wheels connector

Fly has upset his poor lad

Poorish lad used as subject for genetic research

Fruit fly

Drugmaker

Figuratively, a publicity man.

""Producing, or pertaining to, drupes; having the form of drupes; as, drupaceous trees or fruits. as, drupaceous trees or fruits.""

Dryasdust

Drysalter

""The articles kept by a drysalter; also, the business of a drysalter.""

Act of doubting; doubt.